Lunchtime on a skyscraper in 2011: Flat caps swapped for hard hats and safety harnesses as builders recreate famous 1930s image
The famous original photo showed 11 workers in flat caps precariously perched on a steel beam 800ft (240m) above the ground.But
in 2011, these construction engineers in London swapped vests for
high-visibility jackets and safety harnesses as they ate out on a 755ft
(230m) tall building.The
photo - modelled on Charles C Ebbets's famous 1932 original, Lunch atop a
Skyscraper - was taken by Michael Crompton, 61, as he worked on Heron
Tower in central London last year. The 46-floor building is the third
tallest in the capital.

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Safety harnesses and high-visibility
jackets: Eleven workmen 'eat out' as they recreate the famous Lunch atop
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Posted Oct-11-2011 By

killingforgod

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Check out the old picture, the guy on the far right appears to be holding some sort of liquor bottle. HAHA!!

I'd need at least a 5th of Jack Daniels before they would ever get me out there, and then they would have to rescue me with a helicopter. There would be permanent scratch marks in the steel from my fingernails holding on for dear life.